3 Women

4/29/19772h 4m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ 1 Woman Became 2, 2 Women Became 3, 3 Women Became 1. ~

Overview:

Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates.

Director:

Robert Altman

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$1,500,000.00

Revenue:

$5,568.00

Key words:

california
suicide attempt
roommates
identity crisis
avant-garde
pregnant woman
dream sequence
expectant mother
still birth
mysterious
dissociative identity disorder
shooting range
dual personality
lonely woman
new girl in town
taken under wing
duality
california desert
mural
mural artist

Cast

Shelley Duvall

~ as ~

Mildred "Millie" Lammoreaux

Sissy Spacek

~ as ~

Mildred "Pinky" Rose

Janice Rule

~ as ~

Willie Hart

Robert Fortier

~ as ~

Edgar Hart

Ruth Nelson

~ as ~

Mrs. Rose

John Cromwell

~ as ~

Mr. Rose

Sierra Pecheur

~ as ~

Ms. Bunweill

Craig Richard Nelson

~ as ~

Doctor Maas

Maysie Hoy

~ as ~

Doris

Belita Moreno

~ as ~

Alcira

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Reviews (1)

Gimly
Written 5 year(s) ago
5
"An awkward young teen working at a spa becomes overly attached to her fellow worker, a lonely outcast. They hang out at a bar owned by a strange pregnant artist and her has-been cowboy husband. Amid emotional crises, the three women steal and trade one another’s personalities." - Do they? Do they though? With less than ten minutes remaining the 3rd of these 3 women gets her first line. And some of those minutes was credits.

Now a poorly written logline is unlikely to be the fault of the movie itself, but it does kind of make me question why the movie's even called 3 Women. Decent chance I'm just not bright enough to understand it, let alone the movie itself for that matter, but I can only bring you a review from how I experienced it, and from that perspective I can say: It's alright. A lot of the style choices did aggravate me, most notably the music (I've suffered through much worse for far less with this subject, but it was still a negative to me). But the two lead performances are what the movie is predominantly hinged on, and both are pretty good. Not incredible, but pretty good. I know not adoring this puts me in the minority, but I feel like a lot of people nowadays tend to overvalue a film for no other reason than the fact that it was made before... like... 1987. That's never been a factor for me, and 3 Women honestly didn't do a lot for me.

Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.